WORLD'S ILLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 7

WORLD'S ILLS.

REMEDIES sought.

great conference.

Representatives of 66 Nations

In London

momentous occasion.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Iteccived 11.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, June 11. With brief but fitting ceremony His Majesty to-morrow will open the World Economic Conference in which the hopes that, are centred are almost too ambitions for fulfilment. This will ho the 25th international conference since the war. The Empire's capital has risen to the occasion and has placed the handsome new building of the theological Museum, South Kensington, at the disposal of the gatherin" and adapted it to its special requirements. Every conceivable facility for communication between the delegates from 66 nations has been devised. The King will arrive at the conference at 3.30 p.m. and will address the 16S delegates from a green and gold dais. Ho will stand before tho gold microphone, . a plate on which records each time it is used. This will be the fourth time. Then there will be an interval while His Majesty departs. The Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonahl, will be the next to speak. He is determined to set an example in brevity. Afterwards will conic formal business concerning the credentials of the delegates and future procedure. Tho confcrcnce is expcctcd to last six -peeks, but the possibility of a midsummer adjournment has not been over-

looked. Probable Procedure. It is anticipated that the conference -will sit daily from about 11 o'clock in the morning until six in the evening. Tie procedure still remains to be definitely settled, but it is thought probablo that any suggestions brought forward during the second reading debate •will be examined and collated by the conference secretariat, and resolutions to be laid before the confercnce will be framed accordingly. On the basis of the preliminary agenda prepared by the Committee of Hsperts, tko conference,is likely to set up two or three fairly large commissions after the second reading debate. They will have their own sub-commit-tees to consider details of the large problems remitted to the commissions, but every effort is being made to avoid cumbersome machinery and to facilitate rapid work by the confercnce in order to release for their duties in their own countries the eminent statesmen who are serving as delegates l!o the conference.

Multi-Lingual Barmen,

Londoners, whoso own drinking hours are restricted., are particularly interested in the long bar at which every drink in the world will bo available at any hour. Here will bo barmen who can speak six languages and can servo anything from tho arrack of Arabia and the vodka of Russia to homely ale. Tho social events'will include a ballet at Covent Garden Opera House, parties at many great houses, banquets to be given by city livery companies, garden parties and Government receptions. Among the interesting delegates is General Smuts, who, has flown most of tho way from Capetown, Dr. Dolfuss, Austria's harassed Chancellor, also has arrived by air. Dr. Schacht has arrived in an air liner from Berlin. M. Litvinoff's arrival is a mystery. The Soviet Embassy on Friday night was without news as to when he would arrive, and yesterday the officials there >vould only say: "Ho is here." M. Avenol, secretary-general of the conference, who shortly will succeed Sir Eric Drummond as secretary-general of the League of Nations, has cast an expert cyo over the arrangements.